Best friends forever & La voz humana

Katri Häti ja Anne Herrala - Mariano Aguirre

Best Friends Forever

Music-filled Best Friends Forever tells the story of two former friends reuniting. Facebook has brought Annu, a mother of a large family, and Minna, a career-focused single woman, back together after a break of over 20 years. Neither is sure why their paths diverged. Amidst their busy everyday lives, they dissect the past and look to the future, tearing open old wounds and revealing their most secret dreams.

Who doesn't occasionally drink a bottle of cava in fifteen minutes or carry ten pregnancy tests in their handbag? How many boyfriends are scared off by a fear of routine? And who is Pasi? This show is for you who love good songs and aren't afraid of raunchy humor.
Come and enjoy the company of effervescent women and great music!

La Voz Humana

"I have jumped from a high cliff and I have five years to fly until everything ends and I crash down and my heart breaks into a thousand pieces."

The relationship has ended. The woman speaks for the last time with the man she still loves. The conversation is full of emotions and disturbances on the telephone line. She still fights to keep her love alive, to hear her lover's velvety voice one more time, clinging to memories, dancing on the edge of the abyss, interrupted by poor phone connection and people suddenly intruding on an intimate conversation, oscillating between hope and complete despair.

She took too many pills the night before. But she doesn't want to die. She wants to live and love! She just wants the pain to go away! She seduces, cries, laughs, rages, and prays. She does everything to keep herself and the dream of love alive. Because we can still live without love, but not without hope.

Jean Cocteau (1989-1963) was a surrealist multidisciplinary artist and a media personality of his time. His output included prose, poetry, and films. Cocteau's themes often revolve around death and mythology, and the line between reality and fiction is blurred in his works.
The play The Human Voice (1930) was set to opera by Francis Poulenc, and Pedro Almodóvar's film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is loosely based on this text. Additionally, Almodóvar directed a short film of this monologue in 2022, starring Tilda Swinton.